Emma (Kāi Tahu) is a Taranaki based writer. Her first book of short fiction, Ruin, was published in March 2023 with Te Herenga Waka University…
read moreMedia Release 3 May 2023 The Michael King Writers Centre announces recipients of International Exchange with Australia New Zealand writer Emma Hislop and Australian writer…
read moreMedia Release 28 March 2023 New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2023 International Residency with China The Michael King Writers Centre in association with…
read moreMedia Release 8 March 2023 New Zealand’s national writer-residency organisation announces its 2023 International Residency with Australia The Michael King Writers Centre in association with…
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Jacquie (Tainui and Ngāti Koata) is published in several anthologies, including the short story collection Nga hau e Wha, (Stories on the four winds) She…
read moreAt the 2024 Ockham NZ Book Awards, for this book, Emma (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou), was awarded one of the Mātātuhi Foundation Best First Book…
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Originally from Kyiv, Nataliya is a Christchurch-based writer, playwright, street performer, researcher, theatre-maker and a Gothic nerd. She is the founder and director of NO…
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Rosetta, our sixth writer-in-residence for the year, spent her formative writing years developing strengths in poetry, receiving the Kathleen Grattan Poetry and the Metonymy Poetry…
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Gwynneth is a writer and editor from Ōtautahi Christchurch who recently became the librarian at Christchurch Women’s Prison. Writing essays since the mid-1990s, her practice…
read moreEmma (Kāi Tahu) was our second writer-in-residence for 2021. Ruin, her residency project, won the Hubert Church Best First Book Award for fiction at the 2024…
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